C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Blair Zajac wrote:
>> I'm not saying people can't modify it, that's fine, I'm saying, why are
>> we allowing people to remove it? There's a lot of tools that presume
>> the existence of svn:date.
>
> I think we can pretty much guarantee that every tool that presumes the
> existence of svn:date was conceived and composed after svn:date -- by virtue
> of being implemented as a mutable, unversioned revision property -- was made
> optional. This project needn't bear the responsibility for decisions made
> by others who weren't diligent enough to check their assumptions against
> reality.
Where does it say that? Even I was surprised to see that its optional and I
work on this project :) I wouldn't fault other projects from making the same
assumption.
Blair
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